I have a PS3 and a gaming PC, and I spend most of my gaming time on PC. My PS3 is there for the PS3 or console exclusive games I really want (MGS4, Demon's Souls, Valkyria Chronicles, the NHL games, etc).

I find PC gaming is more flexible with graphics settings, mods (likely becoming increasingly popular with the Steam Workshop) and the fact that you can use all different control methods (personally I use my PS3 controller for a lot of third person games or driving games, but prefer mouse and keyboard for FPS, RPGs or strategy games). You can even hook your PC up to your TV if you'd rather play games on your TV.

Games are usually cheaper and go on sale more often for PC too. And PCs have great backwards compatability (especially with places like GOG.com updating old games to be instantly compatible with Windows 7 and other new operating systems)... you can still play games from as far back as the DOS era. Given that most of my favorite games are 10-15 years old now, that's a big plus for me.

The downsides tend to be the upfront cost of a gaming PC (though if you buy enough games, the cheaper cost of PC games might balance this out) and that you sometimes have to do some tinkering to get games to work properly. Most of the time though, a google search of your problem will point you in the direction of someone else who's found a fix._________________

I know I'm gonna get a new PC and PS4 anyway soon. Thinking about either getting a $1000-$1200 build and having it as my main games machine along with everything with the PC and have the PS4 as my social games like sports games and COD.

Or just getting a smaller $600 PC which I'll play certain games like SimCity and use it as an internet machine with the PS4 being the main games console.

Honestly the biggest + to me with PC is the Steam Sales, but I think Microsoft is going to start doing it and maybe even Sony. Consoles are slowly but surely becoming a "different" type of computer. Like youll have Desktop, Laptop and Consoles lol_________________XBL/PSN: Chainedsniper

I copied all that directly from my invoice...except for the SSD, which I bought and installed myself.

Wow, that's a beast of a PC/CPU. Do you do a lot of video editing on it?
I'm scared to ask, how much did it cost?

Mine is just a prebuilt I got on sale for $599.99, but I upgraded: +$25 Corsair PSU , +$150 EVGA GTX 660 SC video card, +$190 for SSD. so in total mine cost around $965 (after rebates and stuff). Totally worth it tho, I love how much better my PC is with the upgrades I made._________________Mack on the sig

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I copied all that directly from my invoice...except for the SSD, which I bought and installed myself.

Wow, that's a beast of a PC/CPU. Do you do a lot of video editing on it?
I'm scared to ask, how much did it cost?

Mine is just a prebuilt I got on sale for $599.99, but I upgraded: +$25 Corsair PSU , +$150 EVGA GTX 660 SC video card, +$190 for SSD. so in total mine cost around $965 (after rebates and stuff). Totally worth it tho, I love how much better my PC is with the upgrades I made.

I do some video editing....not alot.

Cost $1350....but factor in the SSD and 1500-1550.

Probably didnt need something that powerful, but I might in the coming years._________________

pnies20 wrote:

I know I'm one of the biggest trolls on here, but dont call me on it. I can dish it but cant take it.

My baby. Built it about a year and half ago. I watched only a handful of videos on how to build a PC and decided to build this. Lets just say if I had to go back I would have studied a bit more. Could have saved some money.

I barely ever use my consoles anymore, aside from their exclusives. As soon as you front the change for a gaming PC, there seem to me no distinct advantages of consoles.

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Friends (More of your friends will probably have a 360/PS3 than a gaming PC

That's not true for me. All of the friends I care to play with online have gaming PCs. Some don't, but even they are scattered between 360 and PS3 so that is another potential issue.

And in the long run, PC is probably cheaper. Buy legit games from steam for like 5-10$ in the steam sales, not to mention all of the indie games that are sometimes just given away or packed into Humble Bundle packs for pay-what-you-want prices. Especially with Xbox you won't have to pay for Xbox-live.

One positive of consoles is the ability to lend games/borrow games, but they're even planning to kill that advantage in next gen._________________